Acquittal comes after another appeals court upheld the couple’s conviction, but Khan’s lawyer says he won’t be released.
A court in Pakistan has vindicated previous State leader Imran Khan and his significant other on charges of unlawful marriage, as per his party and legal counselor.
Khan and his better half Bushra Khan, otherwise called Bushra Bibi, were condemned to seven years in jail, days before Pakistan's political race in February, a court deciding at the time that their marriage in 2018 disregarded Islamic regulation.
In June a court rejected their plea to have the February ruling suspended.
But on Saturday, an Islamabad court said the “appeals of both Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi are accepted”.
Zulfi Bukhari, a senior official in Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party told Al Jazeera that the charges had been “dismissed”, while Khan’s lawyer, Naeem Panjutha, posted on X, that the couple “are acquitted”.
Khan remains behind bars as a court this week cancelled his bail over accusations he incited riots by his supporters in May 2023.
Lawyer Intazar Hussain Panjutha told Al Jazeera that Khan “will not be released despite acquittal today [Saturday]”.
An anti-terrorism court in Lahore this week approved Khan’s arrest in a case related to last year’s riots, his party’s legal team said.
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